Automobile-signal.



J. KERTESZ.

AUTOMOBILE SIGNAL. APPLIGATION IILED NGV.1, 1913v Patented NOV. 17, 1914.

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Witnesses 1 J. KERTE SZ.

AUTOMOBILE SIGNAL.

APPLICATION IILBD NOV.1, 1913.

Patented Nov. 17, 1914.

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Quorum JOHN KER'I'IESZ, OF WOODBRIDGE, NEW JERSEY.

AUTOMOBILESIGNAL.

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To all whom it ma 1 concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN Knlrrsz, a subject of the King of Hungary, residing at Woodbridge, in the county of Middlesex and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Automobile-Signals, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to automobile attachments.

The object of the invention is, in a ready and practical manner, to enable the chauffeur to display a signal or signals visible either by day or night, to warn the driver of a machine'approaching from the rear, that the chauffeur of the first machine is going to make a turn, the signal or signals having a distinctive shape to indicate in which direction the first machine intends to turn.

With the above and other objects in view, as will appear as the nature of the invention is better understood, the same consists in the novel construction and arrangement of parts of an automobile signal, as will be hereinafter fully described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, and in which like characters of reference indicate corresponding parts: Figure 1 is a view in side elevation exhibiting an automobile equipped with the improvements of the present invention. Fig. 2 is a top plan view of the same. Fig. 3 1s a diagrammatic view exhibiting the electric circuits for operating the signals. Fig. 4 is an enlarged detail view, in section, of one of the signaling devices. Fig. 5 is a top plan view of a slightly modified form of the invention. Fig. 6 is a perspective detail view of a part of the device. Fig. 7 is a fragmentary detail view of another modified form of the apparatus.

Referring to the drawings, A designates. generally, an automobile which may be of any usual or preferred construction, and C the chassis thereof, and as these parts form no part of the present invention, they are simply exhibited to show the manner in which the improvements are applied, and further description is deemed unnecessary.

Working in suitable guides 1 arranged on the chassis, and indicated by dotted lines in Figs. 1 and 2, are two rods or bars 2 and 3, the bar 2 having intermediate of its ends an arm 1 which extends at right angles to the bar 2 and is provided adjacent to its Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed November 1. 1913.

Patented Nov. 1'7, 1914.

Serial in. 798,678.

inner end with a foot piece 5, the bar 3 having a similar arm 6 disposed in transverse alincment with the arm 5 and carrying a foot piece 7. interposed between the arms 4 and 6 are two coiled springs 8 and 9, the inner end of each of which bears against the respective bars, preferably opposite the foot pieces, the other ends of the springs bearing against the front wall W of the drivers compartment in which is arranged the ordinary steering wheel S. The arm 4 carries a contact 10 and the arm 6 a similar contact 11, and these two contacts are designed to co-act with contacts 12 and 13 secured to the wall W, as clearly shown in Fig. 2.

ecured to the chassis or to the front and back of the frame of the machine, and on the under side thereof, at each of the four corners, is a bracket 14, more clearly shown in Fig. 6, to each of which is pivoted one end of a link 15. the other end of each of which is pivotally-connected with one of the terminals of the rods or bars 2 or 8. Rigidly secured to each of the links is an arm or upright 16, each of which carries at its upper end a signal H in the form of a human hand. with the index finger extended, the hand as a whole being transparent and being detachably-secured to the standard 16 as by a collar 17. Arranged within the hand or indicator is an incandescent lamp 18, with which connects one end of an ordinary conductor 19, which is common to all four of the lamps, as shown in the diagrammatic view, Fig. 3, the terminals of 'the conductor being secured to the contacts 12 and 13.

Tapped into the conductor at 20 is one end of a branch conductor 21 including a battery 22, either of the primary or storage tvpe as may be preferred, the other end of the branch conductor being tapped into a cross conductor 23 having at each end a switch 2-1 that is designed to be operated by switch handles 25 and 26 arranged on the front wall of the drivers compartment. These switches 21 are designed to be shifted into and out of engagement with contact points 27 and 28 carried by wires 29 and 30 that connect respectively with the contacts 10 and 11.

Normally. the signals H occupy a plane parallel with the longitudinal axis of the automobile, and so remain as long as the machine is running forward or is standing mohile'odttvard at an angle to such position as to render them clearly visible to the approaching machine. I Should the machine be runningn1'thenight,- the switches 2 twil1 he hroi'ight into engagement with the contacts 2? mane so that when in the event that 7 the machine is rilnnin in the ni ht and the chauffeur shifts the hair. 2 in the manner del scribed; the Contacts 10 and 12 will he hrought into engagement with each other and ;will.cause the lampsv in the two indicators on the, left handside of the mahhine to glow and thus gire'a positive signal, While inthe day-time the pechliarconfiguration of the signals will attract attention, and notify the driver of the approaching machine in which direction the adx ance machine is go ing to turn. The operation just descrihed is true of the mechanism on ,the right haridside of the-machine. in some instances, it may be desired merely to have two signals, these heing'arranged intermcdiate'of the length of thecar, and preferably adjacent to the drivers seat as shown in Fig 5 in Which'ias'e, as ytilthe ohvitnis, the operatingbar'. 31 will and this will force the; baronly extend from the arm 32 back to the link 15 of the signals .H. As shown in Fig. 7, the indicators may be located on the top of the-root of a limousine L.

From the foregoing description, it will be seen that by the arrangement otthe mechanism employed, the positive operation of'a signal orsig'nalsnpon an automobile may be etl'ected, and the same rendered equally adaptable forsecuringthe object sought by day as Well as by night.

' What ll claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States is lFhe combination with the chassis of an aiitoinohile, of a signal device comprising a longitudinally guided shiftable bar at each side of the chassis. laterally extending arms proiecting from said bars, springs between said arms and the front Wall of the drivers compartment, brackets rojccting from the corners of the chassis links each pirotally secured atone end to one of said brackets and at its opposite endto one of said bars, uprights on said links and signals supported upon said uprights;

. lln testiino whereof l atlix my signature in presence ortwo itnesses.

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Sneo Same. JOHN Znuon. 

